ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,988, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Opportunistic reporting techniques for devices having increased quantities of reception chains" was invented by Nitin Agarwal (San Diego), Girish Khandelwal (San Diego), Yongle Wu (San Diego), Joe Thomas (San Diego) and Talha Patel (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may receive a control signal that indicates a radio resource management (RRM) configuration associated with one or more measurement thresholds for managing wireless communication links at the wireless device....